India NCAP – Landcover Classification Between 1992 and 2020

Updated: February, 2022

This repository presents a summary of landcover (LC) classification for Indian cities. The raw data is available from European Space Agency (ESA)’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program, which delivers a new time series of 24 consistent classification maps at 300 m spatial resolution on an annual basis for 1992-2020. In the animations (below) for Ahmedabad, Delhi, Durgapur, and Bengaluru, 24 classes were clubbed into 5 categories for simplification. Global database can be viewed here and downloaded here.

For all the cities under NCAP, data is extracted for a box of 0.4 x 0.4 degrees (~40km x 40km) with the city’s GIS centroid in the middle, to demonstrate the change in the major landcover classifications. This data acts as a proxy for (a) the rate of urbanization (b) the growing demand for construction material and (c) the growing demand for commercial and residential amenities.

The table below presents landcover animation of 1992-2020 for 132 non-attainment cities. To view the animation, click on the link and to save the animation, right click and save.